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skygiantsWeekend of awesome!
Activities included much kidnapping of the fantastic![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kenovay, complete with Chinatown, Ghirardelli Square, cable cars, her first introduction to Mediterranean cuisine, Blackadder, and Kronk's computer-animated cousin; a lovely and far too short lunch with bansidhe; and a pizza-and-Ouran marathon with the roommate in between these exciting events. All homework reading was done on various train journeys between here and San Francisco, because I win at productive.
Awesomeness continued with a guest speaker instead of actual class today for Hebrew, author Amos Oz, who held a really fascinating Q&A session. I haven't actually read any of his stuff; I kind of want to now, but on the other hand, one of the things he spoke at length about was the challenge and the fascination of writing in Hebrew, so it seems almost like missing the point to read any of the books in translation. Perhaps this will motivate me better to actually study for Hebrew class.
A couple interesting points that I remember and will put down here - one, he compared modern Hebrew to Elizabethan English, in the sense that the language, while complete and workable, is still being formed. (I would say all languages are still being formed, but.) The other is that someone asked whether there was any character or voice he couldn't write; his answer was that he couldn't write anyone who wasn't to some degree himself. I did not get a chance to ask him the follow-up question I wanted to, so I will pose it to you all/the LJ-void: when is a character not, in some sense, yourself? What are the character types that are absolutely non-self-identifiable - assuming they're in any way three-dimensional? I don't know; I find it hard to think of some for myself, although I'm sure they exist.
Anyways - off now to class screening of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, followed by homework of not-really-tech-savvy-enough-to-do-augh. Have a good evening, everyone!
Activities included much kidnapping of the fantastic
kenovay, complete with Chinatown, Ghirardelli Square, cable cars, her first introduction to Mediterranean cuisine, Blackadder, and Kronk's computer-animated cousin; a lovely and far too short lunch with bansidhe; and a pizza-and-Ouran marathon with the roommate in between these exciting events. All homework reading was done on various train journeys between here and San Francisco, because I win at productive.Awesomeness continued with a guest speaker instead of actual class today for Hebrew, author Amos Oz, who held a really fascinating Q&A session. I haven't actually read any of his stuff; I kind of want to now, but on the other hand, one of the things he spoke at length about was the challenge and the fascination of writing in Hebrew, so it seems almost like missing the point to read any of the books in translation. Perhaps this will motivate me better to actually study for Hebrew class.
A couple interesting points that I remember and will put down here - one, he compared modern Hebrew to Elizabethan English, in the sense that the language, while complete and workable, is still being formed. (I would say all languages are still being formed, but.) The other is that someone asked whether there was any character or voice he couldn't write; his answer was that he couldn't write anyone who wasn't to some degree himself. I did not get a chance to ask him the follow-up question I wanted to, so I will pose it to you all/the LJ-void: when is a character not, in some sense, yourself? What are the character types that are absolutely non-self-identifiable - assuming they're in any way three-dimensional? I don't know; I find it hard to think of some for myself, although I'm sure they exist.
Anyways - off now to class screening of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, followed by homework of not-really-tech-savvy-enough-to-do-augh. Have a good evening, everyone!
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Date: 2007-01-24 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-24 06:55 am (UTC). . . why do I not have an icon for 'wrath from on high'?
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Date: 2007-01-24 07:15 am (UTC)ALSO, Y'ALL WERE BRITISH THEN, BITCH.
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Date: 2007-01-24 07:46 am (UTC)NOT FOR LONG! :D
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Date: 2007-01-24 07:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-24 07:53 am (UTC)SEE MY POINTY POINTS?
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Date: 2007-01-24 07:54 am (UTC)SEE MINE?
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Date: 2007-01-24 07:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-24 07:56 am (UTC)I WATCHED THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS TODAY. SUCH FUN.
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Date: 2007-01-24 08:01 am (UTC)